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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Reflections on the Novel.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?
(a) Foulness and violence.
(b) Hatred and violence.
(c) Hatred and sadism.
(d) Resentment and violence.

2. What was Voltaire's purpose in writing?
(a) To put forth new knowledge.
(b) To insert philosophy in his novels.
(c) To create law.
(d) To admonish culture.

3. What did Klossowski state was a "moral being and not a created being"?
(a) Evil.
(b) Sin.
(c) Adam.
(d) Sade.

4. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?
(a) Curval.
(b) Duc.
(c) Hebe.
(d) Blangis.

5. Where was the only place that Sade believed he could assert himself?
(a) His bed.
(b) A brothel.
(c) His home.
(d) In prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?

2. Who had written successful novels, although he "indulged vice and strayed from virtue"?

3. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?

4. With what people did the novel originate?

5. Which author did Sade supposedly ignore because of his jealousy regarding the individual's success as a writer?

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